As promised, since I have finished reading Breaking Dawn, the fourth and last novel in the Twilight series, I will give it a review here and now, and a review of the series as a whole as well.

Book Four is the best book since the first in the series, but it still falls far short of my expectations. Meyer likes to keep her readers in a safe bubble, where no one we care about  ever gets hurt. Her safe bubble in this book is Bella's ability to create a shield around everyone she loves and who has come to their aid, keeping them safe from the Volturi's many powers. I mean, come on! She set the book up to have this huge battle between the Volturi and the Cullens at the end, and she didn't deliver. There was a lot of talking and dancing around the issue of if they should let Renesmee, Bella's daughter, live or not. Only one vampire bit it, Irina, who blew the whistle on the Cullens for making, what she believed to be, an immortal child. Renesmee, however, is not completely immortal like Irina thought her to be. She can age and learn because she is only half human, born when Bella was still human. Bella was turned into a vampire immediately after Renesmee was born, before she could die from the traumatic birth. Of course, it was Edward who saved her and turned her into a vampire (because her getting turned into a vampire by anyone else who be unacceptable to the readers, right Stephanie? (blah!)) Talk about always playing the safe card! I think Bella should've become a vampire at the end of the first book when she was bitten by James beore he was killed. That would've felt more realistic. And I don't think Edward sucking out the vampire poison was realistic enough. Vampire poison would spread a lot more rapidly than snake poison, and is much more potent, so I didn't really care for that twist.

Anyway, back to the bubble thing. Meyer likes to set up this whole bubble world where everything falls perfectly into place, where no one can be hurt. Even Jacob is no longer hurt because he imprints himself on Renesmee, who now seems destined to be married to him when she grows up. Give me a break. Everyone at the end of this book has to have a happy ending? Why? Is that realistic? Heck no. Why can't people suffer? Even Rowling killed Dumbledore and Black. As a writer, I want my fans to be satisfied by the end of every novel I write, but Meyer goes beyond what she should, to where nobody important gets hurt. I think the book would have been far better had the battle between the Volturi and the Cullens (and their comrades) taken place, and some people did die. I just don't see the point of wasting all this time setting up a huge battle, and then not let it play out. Talk about anti-climatic, and a lack of creativity. On a good note, the birthing sequence was good in the book. I've heard many readers returned the book because of that part, saying it was too dark, but I felt it was the most realistic part in the whole series. It kept my attention! I give Book 4, 2.5 stars out of 5 .

Now, for the series as a whole, it was nowhere near the level of what Rowling did with Harry Potter. There was far less creativity, and felt more just like a glorified romance series than a new, true epic. I'm sure Meyer will make plenty of money off the series in the years to come, so good for her on that part. No one likes to be broke, and she found a way to make it big. However, the series will never satisfy as many readers as it had the potential to. Sorry, Steph, but it left me feeling unsatisfied. And if your future series are going to follow this same pattern, I will not be reading any more of your novels. There are better writers out there who are struggling to make ends meet, and I would much rather support them than an overhyped romance series that just dabbles in the supernatural. I give the series as a whole, 2.5 stars out of 5. This in my opinion, is a C at best. I don't regret reading the series, but Meyer needs to make her plots more interesting.